New York Yankees first baseman Luke Voit is headed back to the injured list with a sports hernia and could be sidelined well into September if he needs surgery, manager Aaron Boone said Wednesday.
Boone said the Yankees will evaluate Voit over the next few days to determine a course of action. Options include treating the injury on a day-to-day basis or having surgery, which would keep him out of the lineup for six weeks.
Voit left Tuesday’s 4-2 loss to the Arizona Diamondbacks in the fifth inning and had an MRI following the game.
One of Voit’s swings during an at-bat in the bottom of the third that ended in a strikeout raised a few eyebrows in the Yankees’ dugout, as they thought something looked a little off. Voit later told Boone and the training staff that he had been having trouble getting loose all day.
Voit is batting .278 with 19 homers and 54 RBIs in 94 games.
This is the second time this season that he’s dealt with an injury around his torso. On July 2, he landed on the 10-day IL due to an abdominal strain.
All-Star infielder DJ LeMahieu will also miss his fourth straight game Wednesday because of a groin injury. He is tied with Boston’s Rafael Devers for the AL lead in batting average at .332.
Boone said LeMahieu is likely to return for Friday’s series opener against the Red Sox.
In other moves, the Yankees placed right-hander David Hale on the injured list with a lumbar spine strain and recalled right-hander Jonathan Holder and infielder Breyvic Valera from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.
ESPN’s Coley Harvey contributed to this report.